This video footage has emerged of the moment a man was arrested by 14 police officers in the centre of Truro . The witness captured the scene as police struggled with the detainee while trying to get him into their van.

The man, who has not been named, had to be placed in leg and hand restraints as shocked shoppers looked on shortly before 3pm on Tuesday (June 19) on Lemon Quay.

Police had called by a person who witnessed a man swapping number plates on what was claimed to have been a stolen BMW on Lemon Street.